BEYOND

Leena, has fought all her life to let go of her grief over her dark childhood. One morning just before Christmas, Leena receives a phone call from a hospital in her childhood hometown telling her that her mother is dying. This news takes her on a journey to face her mother for the first time in her adult life. She is now forced to deal with her past to be able to move on. Pernilla August makes her directorial debut with her take on the bestselling novel SVINALÄNGORNA by Susanna Alakoski.

A jury consisting of Honorary Chairman Helen Mirren has just awarded Pernilla August’s directorial debut BEYOND the most prestigious prize in the North; the Nordic Council Film Prize.

The award goes to director Pernilla August, screenwriter Lolita Ray and producer's Helen Danielsson and Ralf Karlsson from Hepp Film with the following acknowledgement from the jury: "BEYOND is a tough, complex drama, raw and sensitive at the same time, dark and yet still full of light of life....

“Beyond,” “Le Havre” and Sundance winner “Happy, Happy” from Norway are among the contenders for 2012.

BERLIN – After In A Better World from Denmark’s Susanne Bier won the best foreign language film Oscar this year, Europe’s Nordic territories are looking to make it two in a row with their crop of 2012 Academy Award hopefuls. The five countries in the region have picked three debut features and two by established veterans as their cinematic reps for next year’s Oscar race....

All five Nordic countries have now
cast their vote and TrustNordisk is proud to be representing 3 of out 5
of the nominated candidates for next year’s Oscar-race in the category Best
Foreign Language Film.

Selected by the local
committees as the best feature to be included in the prestigious company of
competitors for the Academy Award category, Sweden has chosen Pernilla
August’s BEYOND, Norway has chosen Anne Sewitsky’s HAPPY, HAPPY
and...

The Swedish Film Institute announced this morning in a press release that Pernilla August's BEYOND is selected as Sweden's entry for the Academy Awards.

Beyond, Pernilla August's debut feature, is loosely based on Susanna Alakoski's award-winning novel of the same name. Set both in the present and in the southern Swedish town of Ystad in the 1970s, the film is a gripping story of a woman's confrontation with memories from her troubled childhood.